The British Parking Awards, sponsored by Equita, celebrated their 10th birthday The 2011 competition was the biggest and best yet

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The British Parking Awards 2011 Awards Categories Click here to download information on what the judges will be looking for. The Equita Overall Winner Award This award will be presented to the overall winner drawn from the category winners. It will be given to the individual category winner who, in the opinion of the judges, represents the single most outstanding example of excellence in the UK parking industry during the past year. There will be just one winner in this category and no runner up. View criteria for this award Best New Car Park This award is open to local authority and private car park operators, architects, developers and construction companies working separately or together, to deliver an outstanding parking facility. There will be distinct awards for multi-storey car parks and surface car parks. To qualify the new facility must have been completed after 1 July 2009. View criteria for this award Best Refurbishment Award sponsored by the Safer Parking Scheme The Best Refurbishment category recognises projects which not only renovate but truly transform car parks. Such projects will be ones which create more than clean, bright, well signed, safe and structurally sound facilities. The judges will be looking for renovations and re-designs which create attractive, vibrant, safe and aesthetically striking gateways to destinations such as town centres, airports, rail stations, retail developments and leisure facilities. Entries must have achieved Park Mark status. View criteria for this award APCOA Living Streets Award This award is open to all local authorities and private companies operating, designing or maintaining either on or off-street parking operations that have improved access to, and the liveability of, town centres and their streetscapes (including car parks). The focus of the award is on what happens when motorists park and become pedestrians. Nominated projects should have had a positive impact on the environment in a town centre, neighbourhood or car park – whether they be a city centre or local shops and services. This award is being presented in partnership with the national charity Living Streets and APCOA Parking (UK). View criteria for this award The Marketing Award This award is open to local authority and private car park operators, and their PR and marketing contractors. The award recognises best practice in advertising and marketing of parking facilities and services. The marketing campaign may be aimed at the motoring public or at a specific professional audience — commercial drivers, parking managers, government, etc. The campaign may be to spread awareness or advertise the launch of an enforcement scheme, park & ride, residential parking schemes, a new controlled parking zone, an anti-crime initiative or an anti-fraud campaign. View criteria for this award Exceptional Customer Service Award sponsored by Alpha Parking This award will be presented to the parking organisationwhich has demonstrated a commitment to providing excellent customer service. The category is open to public and private sector parking operators and covers both the off-street and on-street sectors. The service may be one provided to the general motoring public or to users of private car parks. View criteria for this award The Innovation Award This award will be made on merit to a parking system provider, operator or other organisation which has developed and implemented an innovative idea or package of parking measures. These measures should be significantly different to existing ones, and have the potential to improve efficiency within the parking industry. With systems and technology, the judges are looking for evidence of application in the real world — with added weight being given where tangible evidence and references are provided. View criteria for this award Parking in the Community This category will recognise the ways in which people working in the parking sector are making a positive contribution to the wider community on a local, regional or national level. Entries could be: 1. Site-specific improvements or additional services that benefit the local community and/or users with specific needs. 2. Community projects that seek to involve and improve the locality which a car park operation serves. Charitable fund-raising initiatives involving individual parking staff, teams or organisations making a positive contribution to good causes at either a local or national level. View criteria for this award The Environment Award This award recognises the increasing number of environmentally aware parking operations. Schemes that are eligile include those that make parking operations more sustainable (ie: energy saving and energy efficiency technologies, recycling, alternative fuel vehicles, etc) and ways in which parking operations can influence and transform behaviour, such as park & ride, car clubs, car sharing, emissions-based permit schemes, ‘carbon metering’, cycle parking, etc View criteria for this award The Enforcement Award This award is open to all local authority and private operators enforcing on-street parking operations. Eligible teams include those involved in kerbside parking management, blue badge permit. residents’ permit and business permit schemes, CCTV enforcement of parking regulations, school parking schemes, etc. The team may be on-street civil enforcement officers (CEOs), police traffic wardens, representations and appeals staff, planning and policy staff, debt recovery specialists and/or removals and clamping teams. View criteria for this award Young Parking Professional Award This new award will recognise the rising stars of parking, people aged between 18 and 29 who represent the talent of the future. It is open to all local authorities and private operators to nominate an individual parking employee, consultant or contractor who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a ‘model of excellence’. In short, they will be a young person who has made a decision to firge a career in parking and its related activities. View criteria for this award Parking Team of the Year This award is open to all local authority and private operators managing parking. The award covers both on and off-street parking operations, and encompasses front line, back office and support services (including IT, press, marketing, maintenance and service departments). The award relates to a specific town, borough, location (airportm hospital, retail centre, etc). In the private sector it should relate to a specific contract, and not to overall national operations of major private sector contractors. View criteria for this award RingGo Parking Person of the Year This merit award is open to all local authorities and private operators to nominate an individual parking employee who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a ‘model of excellence’. In short, they will be a person who exhibits the difference that makes the difference. This award is open to all staff and includes attendants, supervisors, managers, backroom and ‘parking shop’ staff, trainers, engineers, park & ride drivers, etc. View criteria for this award

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